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1. Vertical Integration and Horizontal Integration is that horizontal integration was the merging of companies that make similar products and Vertical integration was a companies taking over its suppliers and distributors and transportation systems to gain total control over the quality and cost of its product.
2. The theory that Social Darwinism advocated was an economic and social philosophy- supposedly based on biologist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection- holding that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest.
3. Factory workers faced many conditions in the late nineteenth century such as a seven day workweek, 12 hour days, no vacations, no sick days, no reimbursement, dirty and unventilated factories, many dangers were around like faulty equipment, and there were about 675 laborers killed each year by injuries on the job.
4. Labor Unions advocated to better work places, earn more money, and receive less hours on each given day that they had to work. They also organized the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) which welcomed African Americans and they gave the people as sense of dignity.